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Generative AI Will Play Role in Data Management says JP Morgan Chase Executive

Financial institutions are missing a valuable opportunity if they don’t harness the benefits that artificial intelligence (AI) can bring to data management. From accelerating and automating routine processes to mining value from huge data sets, established and generative AI have the potential to transform the way financial institutions use and organise their data, says JP...


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Wilshire Indexes Selects Alveo Data-as-a-Service for Corporate Actions Data Management

Wilshire Indexes, provider of a global benchmark platform that helps institutional investors, asset managers and retail intermediaries solve benchmarking, portfolio construction, and risk management challenges, has selected Alveo’s Data-as-a-Service (DaaS) solution for corporate actions data management. The Alveo solution sources, cross-references, compares and validates corporate actions from multiple data vendors. In case of discrepancies, the...

SmartStream Names Akber Jaffer as CEO

SmartStream Technologies has named Akber Jaffer as CEO. He replaces Haytham Kaddoura, who held the post for over seven years and now becomes an advisor and board director at the company. Jaffer has several years of experience working with start-ups and scaling software and technology businesses, and most recently spent a year as a freelance...

Automation Adds Efficiency to Corporate Actions Processing, But is Not a Sole Solution

Corporate actions processing is challenging, raises prospects of financial and reputational risk, and can be extremely time consuming. Getting it right is key to financial institutions and their clients, so how can these challenges be overcome? Is automation the solution or are there also more nuanced approaches that will help firms achieve not only accurate...

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Upcoming Webinar: How to ensure efficient, accurate, timely and compliant entity data management

Date: 29 November 2023 Time: 10:00am ET / 3:00pm London / 4:00pm CET Duration: 50 minutes Requesting, gathering, analysing and monitoring customer, vendor and partner entity data is a time-consuming, and often a manual process. These aspects can slow down customer relationships and can expose financial institutions to risk from inaccurate, incomplete or outdated data…

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ESG Data & Tech Summit London

The ESG Data & Tech Summit will explore challenges around assembling and evaluating ESG data for reporting and the impact of regulatory measures and industry collaboration on transparency and standardisation efforts. Expert speakers will address how the evolving market infrastructure is developing and the role of new technologies and alternative data in improving insight and filling data gaps.

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ESG Handbook 2023

The ESG Handbook 2023 edition is the essential guide to everything you need to know about ESG and how to manage requirements if you work in financial data and technology. Download your free copy to understand: What ESG Covers: The scope and definition of ESG Regulations: The evolution of global regulations, especially in the UK…

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The Evolution of Enterprise Data for ESG

Until recently, ESG data was regarded as a peripheral concern among data managers. Today, it is a vital part of an institution’s operations, needed by front- and back-office teams, putting huge new responsibilities on chief data and sustainability officers. Incorporating this new generation of data into institutions’ infrastructures, however, has been a challenge. Many on-prem...

Solving the Enterprise Data Challenge for Institutional Investors

Institutional investors are evolving under pressure from a range of emergent externalities that are prompting many to assume new roles and processes, some of which have traditionally been the preserve of asset managers. Enabled by data-led technology, they are making more direct investments and managing their portfolios in-house. At the same time, they are streamlining...

How Banks Harness the Value of Cloud for Scale and Agility

Financial services are recognizing the benefits that data-led processes can bring and are undergoing digital transformations that are putting data at the heart of their operations and decisions-making processes. They are seizing on data as an asset whose value can be unlocked through technology to increase revenue and reduce costs across the entire enterprise. With...

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Recorded Webinar: S&P Recorded Webinar: Confidence and Clarity – Understanding Valuation Risk

This recorded webinar will help you to understand how valuations and pricing have evolved over the last couple of years in the post-crisis environment. In this session, you will hear different perspectives on how market participants have been tackling the valuation risk challenge from Paul Sharkey of Northern Trust, James Dimech Debono of KPMG, and...

Recorded Webinar: Ideas at the Edge – Managing Risk Information in the Siloed Enterprise

This webinar has passed, but you can view the recording here. Risk management has been accepted as the new imperative for financial institutions of all types and sizes. But for Tier 1 and Tier 2 banks and brokerages, the complexity of their organisations is presenting risk professionals with a thorny data management challenge: How to...

Recorded Webinar: What the LEI Means for your Firm

This webinar has passed, but you can view the recording here. This A-Team Webinar looks at the implications of the emerging legal entity identifier (LEI) for financial institutions as they address how to implement the new standard, and offers suggestions on best practices as the LEI becomes available. The industry initiative to develop and promote...

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A-Team Innovation Awards

Introducing winners of the A-Team Innovation Awards 2023. These awards celebrate successful projects within financial institutions (both with vendor support and without) across the financial enterprise.

 

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  • Regulatory Data Handbook 2022/2023 – Tenth Edition

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